IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 207: The Acts of the Ecumenical Councils, I: Language, Procedure, and Composition
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | British Academy 'Projet Volterra on Roman Law', University College London |
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| Organiser: | R. W. Benet Salway, Department of History, University College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter Riedlberger, ERC Project ACO Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| Paper 207-a | Multilingualism at the Council of Chalcedon (and How to Preside over a Greek Trial Speaking Latin) (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 207-b | The Threefold Summons in Conciliar Acts (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 207-c | Council Acts between Recording, Compilation, and (Literary) Composition (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | The multi-layered and generically diverse documents that comprise the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum crossed and re-crossed the linguistic and doctrinal frontiers of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The Acts include (purportedly) verbatim minutes of the proceedings, a formal framework, and documents subsequently appended. This panel collects papers examining some of the formal features of the proceedings and their recording. These papers represent work emerging from the ERC-funded ACO Project (www.uni-bamberg.de/en/erc-stg-aco/), an in-depth study of proceedings from the perspective of cultural history, tracing the destinies of the Acts' texts, from oral utterance to the manuscript texts we have today. |